CNN is being slammed for downplaying the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, which saw multiple people injured at a pro-Israel rally.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the incident a ‘targeted terror attack’ against demonstrators as they gathered to remember the October 7 victims who are still being held hostage in Gaza on Sunday afternoon.
The horror unfolded during the event, organized by Run For Their Lives, on Pearl Street Mall in downtown Boulder at around 1.26pm, police said.
But on CNN, Juliette Kayyem pointed out that the Boulder police chief was not yet willing to call the attack an act of terrorism – as she called Patel ‘juvenile’ for assuming it was.
‘It makes law enforcement look disorganized and it makes the FBI look so juvenile, like why are you getting ahead of the police chief who says “I don’t know what this is,”‘ Kayyem argued.
‘And he has no incentive to get it wrong.
‘So we’re going to take a step back, not be responsive to tweets by two heads of the FBI who don’t have a long history in law enforcement,’ she said of the network.
‘And we will wait and hope it isn’t what we all worry it is – and if it is, then there’ll be an investigation.’
CNN has been slammed for apparently downplaying the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, which saw multiple people injured at a pro-Israel rally
FBI Director Kash Patel called the incident a ‘targeted terror attack’ against demonstrators as they gathered to remember the October 7 victims who are still being held hostage in Gaza on Sunday afternoon
If they then determine it was terrorism, Kayyem said, ‘I will be the first one out here saying that this is a hate crime.
‘But until we do, we all need to – to not follow the FBI’s tweets,’ she argued.
Her comments were quickly criticized online, with one person noting that the suspect was caught on video ‘ranting about Zionism as he sets Jews on fire.’
They also shared a video of the as-of-yet unidentified suspect holding what appeared to be Molotov cocktails and saying, ‘This will end when Palestine is free and for us.’
The suspect was seen with apparent Molotov cocktails as he yelled about Zionism
‘Hey CNN hacks @JulietteKayyem and X-less Andrew McCabe, here’s your video,’ they wrote.
‘Tell me again it’s too early to talk about motive and call [Bongino] and [Patel] “juvenile” for saying this is “terror,”‘ he slammed the network.
But he was not the only one criticizing the network for its coverage.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
